grieve

Verb
Synonyms: sorrowaggrieve

WordNet 3.0

Verb (2)

  1. feel griefSynonyms: sorrow
  2. cause to feel sorrow“his behavior grieves his mother”Synonyms: aggrieve
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Grieve \Grieve\ (gr[=e]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grieved; p. pr. & vb. n. Grieving.] [OE. greven, OF. grever, fr. L. gravare to burden, oppress, fr. gravis heavy. See Grief.]

1.To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try. [1913 Webster]

Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.— Eph. iv. 30.[1913 Webster]
The maidens grieved themselves at my concern.— Cowper,[1913 Webster]

2.To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Grieve \Grieve\ (gr[=e]v), Greeve \Greeve\, n. [AS. ger[=e]fa. Cf. Reeve an officer.] A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] [1913 Webster]

Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]

Grieve \Grieve\, v. i. To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over. [1913 Webster]

Do not you grieve at this. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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